Handle-supporting attachment for wheels.



E. KOHL.

HANDLE SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT FOR WHEELS. APPLICATTON FILED JULY 9T1915U Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

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' full, clear, and exact description ofthe inv UNITED STATES PATENT caries.

EDWARD KOHL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

HANDLE-SUPPORTING ATTACHIVIENT FOB, WHEELS.

Application filed July 9, 1915.

vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to makeand use the same.

This invention relates to improvements handle-supporting attachments for wheels, and pertains more especially to -ahandlesupporting attachment which is adapted to be applied to a wheel to berotated through the medium of the-handle of. said attach ment at the peripheral surface of the wheel.

The primary object of this invention-is to provide a handle-supporting attachment of the character indicated which is simple in construction';'and "readily "applied "'to' the wheel to be rotated by hand."

'With this object ,in view, and to the end of attaining any other advantage hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations andrelative arrangement of parts, hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure l is an end view of a shaft which is operatively provided with a pulley or wheel provided with my improved handle supporting attachment.

Fig. 2 is a left-hand side elevation relative to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central section'of my improved handle-supporting attachment.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, A indicates a shaft which is operatively provided with a pulley or wheel B which is to be rotated by hand although sometimes if not generally rotated in some other manner. My improved handle-supporting attachment is shown detached in Fig, 3 and comprises a sheet-metal strap C adapted to extend circumferentially of and be clamped to the peripheral surface of a wheel, and in F igs. 1 and 2 said strap is shown mounted on and extending circumferentially of the peripheral surface of the wheel B. D indicates the handle of my improved attachment, and d the inner end-portion of said handle, and said inner end-portion of the handle is preferably quadrangular in cross-section. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

Serial No. 38,995.

handle is interposed between opposite endportions of the strap 0 and arranged parallel with the axis of the wheel upon the application of the strap to a wheel as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and said handle upon the application of my improved attachment to I the wheel is arranged with opposite sides of the inner end-portion thereof approximately radial to said wheel. Preferably one endportion of the strap C has an outwardly projecting arm 5 overlapping one sideof the inner end-portion of the handle, and said arm is preferably made strong enough by forming the arm by folding together a-portion of the strap in such a manner that said arm comprises two thicknesses of'the metal composing the strap, and said end-portion of the strap extends, as at 6, from the inner end'of said arm across the-wheel-facin'g surface of the inner end-portion of the'han-' 1 die, 'as at 7, and the other end-portion'of the strap terminates-in an outwardly projecting arm '8'which is preferably formed by folding togethera portion-of the'strap in such a manner that the last-mentioned metal composing the strap between the outer ;arm comprises a double thickness of-the end of said last-mentioned arm and the terminal end 7 of the-first-mentioned end-portion of the strap. Means for securing to gether the arms 5 and 8 and the handle D and for clamping or tightening the strap T to the peripheral surface of the wheel B are provided and comprise a bolt which (see Fig. 3) has its shank G extending loosely through the arm 5 and loosely through the A inner end-portion d of the handle and loosely through a bolt-hole 10 formed in the arm 8.-

Said bolt has a head 9 arranged at the outer side of the arm 5, and a nut H is screwed onto the shank of the bolt at the outer side of the arm 8. It will be observed that upon manipulating the not H to tighten it against the arm 8, the arms 5 and 8 and the handle interposed between said 'arms areclamped or tightly secured together, and the strap C has such length relative to the diameter of the wheel to which it is to be applied that the strap upon clamping the arms 5 and S and the handle D together is clamped to the i peripheral surface of said wheel.

I would here remark that the strap C is not only provided with a bolt-hole 10 in its portion which forms the arm 8 but is also provided adjacent said arm with additional bolt-holes 12 which are spaced equidistantly 5 diameter than the wheelillustrated.

'ianipnlation of the nut H to loosen it relative to the arm SQ Whn my improved handle-supporting attachment is operatirely applied to a Wheel as shown in Figs. 1 and taehnient igee to be g em o from thewheel d obl iqu' lytsaidear ms lposeu la ir to e h dle. preparato y to t eapph a ion of e ttat hmen 19, qro -t ln i 2 end; 7

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hdle tend :sa d e -liwr i ns i of; the strap 30 are,sepnred' togetheriandthe strap clamped" he a esaidasurfac -p 2141 6 ombine-Mood ha d e and f upr f ,porting attaehmelnti -.t hereforj oomprisiiig a strap adapted to extend oiroumferentia-lly of and be ela mp ed, to; the 'peripheralisurface of t a wheel, ga;;handle rinterpolseibehfieen the end-portions ofi strap and arranged substantially, parallel with-,tlieiaxis of. said wheelupon. the app icati n of the strap o thef wheel f and Qne'ansEremovably securing the strapl to theMheel-i i 3,; The eoinbi1 1'ation= of'a handle and-a supportingflafttachajneht; therefor comprising a sl1eet n1talsjtra p adapted to extend circum ferentiall off-:Zand? be. clamped: :tOl e periphezia ur-faeeiofi 'a. wheel, 'a;han'dle in ter-posed bet'vveenathelend-portions of said =1 strap, a holtqe'xtending loosely thr0'u,gh the end-portions of the istrap andfiloosely through, the handlejandhaving ahead arranged atiftheputer' side ofeone end-portion Offth strap,--a;nnt screwed onto the bolt at 2,.is all-,thahis negessary-to render s'aidjab W QQQL i UBO; referen wtran i QLdSZt e-handIe: in p aeeirela retmheamtfl pr par ry. to. i lepp ic iefz-me andl ls rpe i gf-a iichmsnt-to heel, a d; at the m m -1 a .r h-iiidrlii aisub neattherefor comprish1g a end-portion or.

v n'ioi nted on said wheel.

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the outer side of the other end-portion of the strap, and means for prrrenting rotation of the handle on the bolt.

4. he combination of 2-. handle and a supporting attachment therefor comprising the eombination, with a handle adapted to he applied at the periphery and substantially parallel wheel, of a sheet-n'ietal st to.

axis of a adapted to exthe to be a rraiiged tend oiremnferentialiy or and be elan1p;ed

to the peripheral surface 01 said wheel one endportion of the strap having an outwardly. pro ecting arm overlapping one side of the inner endportion of the handle and the other end-portion of the strap terminat ing; infan outwardly pro ecting arnr ar-;

ranged .at -thet opposite side of said portion of the handle,. and jineans whereby-l the handle and said-arms of the end-portions of thestrap gnay be secured together andthe }strap tightened on the peripheral snrfacej 1 oft theaforesaidwheel. I 1 The combination of a ha dle and a supl; porting attachment therefor comprising the;

combination with a handle adapted to be appl ed at the peripheryand to be arranged suhsta nt ally pa rallel "1th to the peripher se of said heel, one.

wardly:projecting arin overlapping one side rp extending from the inner end oi said arnr across the the axis of a v wheel; of a-sneetnetal strap adapted to exvtend :e re;anterent ally of and be clamped strap haying an out-' handle to and overlapping the opposite side of portion of the handle, and the other e11d-port1on of-tl1e strap terminatingin an;

ontiy'ardly proj eeting-ar n arranged opposite the last-ins! the handle and means for rendering the -.strap tight relative tothe peripheral surface of the aforesaid Wheel when the-strap is In testimony. whereof, I sign goingspeoifioatlon, in the presence of two EDWARD KOH i.

lVitnesses B. C. Brion-x, LEE B. GREEN.

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